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President Trump said Thursday that he would “almost . . . definitely” declare a national emergency to circumvent Congress and build his long-promised border wall if Democratic lawmakers won’t meet his demand for funding. “If we don’t make a deal, I would say it would be very surprising to me that I would not declare a national emergency and just fund it through the various mechanisms,” Trump told reporters outside the White House. “The only way you have a strong border is you have a wall or steel barrier. . . . I have the absolute right to ...

Jan 10, 2019

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President Trump on Thursday will visit the southern border of the United States as he continues to promote building a wall between the U.S. and Mexico — a signature promise of his 2016 presidential campaign. Trump’s demand for $5 billion in funding for a wall at the border is at the center of an ...

- President Donald Trump denied slamming a table and storming out of shutdown negotiations with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, accusing Schumer of fabricating the account. Schumer “told his favorite lie when he used his standard sound bite that I ‘slammed ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump on Thursday threatened to use emergency powers to bypass Congress and get billions of dollars to pay for a wall on the U.S.-Mexico border, as a partial U.S. government shutdown over the issue stretched into its 20th day. As he departed ...

- Almost a third of the $2 trillion that U.S. states spend each year comes from Washington, so the partial shutdown of the federal government would seem to spell major financial trouble in America’s statehouses. So far, the impact has been relatively limited, because only about a quarter of the ...

Donald Trump walked out of a meeting with congressional leaders Wednesday after failing to make progress on resolving the impasse over the president’s demand for funding to build a wall on the Mexico border, a standoff that has led to a government shutdown now in its third week./ Moments after ...

At a rally in downtown Philadelphia, furloughed government workers joined by four members of Congress expressed frustration at the prolonged partial government shutdown. "I'm fighting for my job,” Sharyn Roberts told Yahoo News during Tuesday’s event. “We need to reopen government so federal ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump said on Wednesday he has a right to declare a national emergency to build a wall on the southern border if no deal with Congress can be reached on funding the project, but Democrats plan to test Republicans' resolve on the issue. On the 19th day ...

Moments after leaving a meeting with Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, President Trump declared on Wednesday that the meeting, which aimed to find a way through the impasse that has kept the government partially closed for more than three weeks, was “a total waste of time ...

- President Donald Trump stormed out of a White House meeting with congressional leaders Wednesday as talks to end a nearly three-week government shutdown collapsed over his continued insistence on border wall funding. Trump said in a tweet the meeting was a “waste of time,” blaming House ...

On the 20th day of a partial government shutdown, federal employees rally at the Capitol to protest the impasse between Congress and President Donald Trump over his demand to fund a U.S.-Mexico border wall, in Washington, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)/ On the 20th day ...

- The partial U.S. government shutdown is in its 19th day, and President Donald Trump joined Senate Republicans at a private lunch before meeting later at the White House with congressional leaders of both parties. Trump Walks Out of ‘Waste of Time’ Meeting (4:06 p.m.) Trump walked out of a ...

President Trump on Wednesday resumed his threat to bypass Congress and fund the construction of a border wall by declaring a national emergency if Democrats maintain their opposition to his funding demands. “I have the absolute right to do national emergency if I want,” Trump told reporters ...

As the partial shutdown of the federal government inches nearer to breaking the record for , the Trump Administration has announced stopgaps to temporarily continue some services that affect millions of Americans – including tax refunds and food stamps. However, President Trump has threatened ...

Representative Beto O’Rourke (D., Texas) called the southern border “one of the safest places in the United States” late Tuesday night, hours after President Trump delivered an Oval Office address on the need for a border wall. “By any measure the border is as safe as it’s ever been,” O’Rourke ...

- President Donald Trump headed to Texas to rally support for building a border wall a day after walking out of talks with congressional leaders on ending a partial government shutdown. The shutdown entered its 20th day on Thursday as its impact spreads. About 800,000 federal workers will miss ...

has claimed that, despite his repeated promises that on US southern border, he “obviously never meant Mexico would write a cheque”. Mr Trump’s website for his 2016 campaign had previously stated that the border country would make a “one-time payment of “$5-$10 billion”. Instead, the president ...

Tailor Gutierrez, a furloughed worker for the Internal Revenue Service, no longer buys meat. She eats ramen, or white rice and gravy instead. “We’re trying to find things that are cheap, but filling and sort of healthy," the 19-year-old says. Across the country, 800,000 furloughed federal ...

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Latest on President Donald Trump and the partial government shutdown (all times local): The former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency says what's happening on the U.S. southern border is no emergency. W. Craig Fugate, who ran the national disaster agency for ...

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - President Donald Trump said on Friday he would not declare a national emergency "right now" to end a standoff over border security that has idled large swaths of the U.S. government, all but guaranteeing that he will preside over the longest shutdown in U.S. history. The ...

A National Park entrance fee collection service is temporarily suspended at Badwater Basin in Death Valley National Park, the lowest point in North America, during the partial U.S. government shutdown, in Death Valley, California, U.S., January 10, 2019. REUTERS/Jane Ross/ (Reuters) - A shutdown ...

President Donald Trump tours the U.S. border with Mexico at the Rio Grande on the southern border, Thursday, Jan. 10, 2019, in McAllen, Texas. (AP Photo/ Evan Vucci)/ WASHINGTON (AP) — The former head of the Federal Emergency Management Agency said Thursday that what's happening on the U.S. ...

- Theresa May returns to Parliament to explain what she’s going to do next. She’s ditched cross-party talks and will instead seek to do what the European Union has long rejected -- rewrite the Irish backstop. May is focusing on Irish backstop ahead of statement to ParliamentSpokesman says ...

oward the end of his life, Martin Luther King Jr. turned his attention from an exclusive focus on racial justice to unequal opportunity more generally. The United States was “a ,” he wrote, “while millions of its citizens are denied a good education, adequate health services, decent housing, ...

The letter said former diplomat Michael Kovrig, pictured, and businessman Michael Spavor worked to improve understanding of China and to promote better relations with the world (AFP Photo/Julie DAVID DE LOSSY)/ Beijing (AFP) - A group of former diplomats and academics have signed an open letter ...

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Google has kicked off 2019 by getting hit with yet another multimillion-dollar fine from a European regulator. Stemming from an investigation that began in May — the day after Europe’s strict new data privacy rules known as GDPR went into effect — France’s data protection authority has announced ...

The moon is seen during a total lunar eclipse, known as the "Super Blood Wolf Moon", in Brussels/ The moon is seen during a total lunar eclipse, known as the "Super Blood Wolf Moon", in Brussels, Belgium January 21, 2019. REUTERS/Yves Herman/ (Reuters) - Skywatchers howled at the moon at the ...

A suicide bomber drove his car into a checkpoint in northeastern Syria on Monday, injuring several soldiers of Kurdish-led forces during a joint convoy with U.S. allies, locals said. The attack happened on the western edge of Shadadi town in Hasaka province near a route frequented by the U.S ...